Wildfires of 1985

Unnamed Fire

1985ColoradoWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,020 acres in Colorado, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to June 21, 1985.

Size
1,020 acres
Ignition
June 21, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,020 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.451, -108.142.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,020 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
748 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 21, 1985
State
Colorado
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
COLSD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CO4045110815119850621
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in Colorado in 19853

FireAcresStartCause
Pinto Mesa Fire1,963
Brewster 2 Fire1,338
Shame Fire1,247Oct 6, 1985

Every fire of 1985 Colorado fire history

Nearby

Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.